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I've been telling myself "hey, seems like you're moving on from MDZS and you know what, that's fine, you've read some great other books lately even if they have tiny fandoms," and I've been telling myself "yeah it's cool if I haven't been really in the mood to write in the past year, I'm enjoying other hobbies just fine" and while both those things are true...
...apparently I can still get hit by surprise inspiration for a wangxian sea monster au!

I set out writing this as a threadfic but then thought about the state of twitter and thought, let's not. But if I'm going to actually use DW as a fandom space, why not post it here?

( Eventual consentacles, eventual body horror, what I've written so far is pretty tame though )

(I didn't do fandom on LJ "in the old days" and the way some people would have it, no one used to post any hint of a fic until the whole thing was finished. But it's 2022 anyway.)

 Finally all three have been cleared to share publicly, so here they are!

Inquiry, Reprise - giftee asked for WangXian fluff. I decided to work an image I had - of the couple conversing via guqin - into an actual story, in which Wei Ying tries to give Lan Zhan what he couldn't before - an answer to his Inquiry. I like the idea of communicating with music, and MXTX was vague enough on the fantasy worldbuilding elements that there's room for a lot of handwaving and headcanoning, and I think I'm going to do something else with Inquiry in the future, too. Fun things - this fic has the honor of being my most-kudosed-in-its-first-day fic, at just over 150. Not sure it deserves the honor, but I'll take it.

Warmth - giftee asked for Jiang Yanli/Wen Qing. I've seen this ship discussed before, but it seems I'm the first to write it, on ao3 at any rate. The characters never met in canon, so it's understandable (although I've seen couples that make far less sense to me get more attention). I wrote a slight divergence from canon, in which the Wen siblings were discovered helping Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng and had to flee their sect; this was what brought Wen Qing and Jiang Yanli together. I'll admit I was a little disappointed by Jiang Yanli's role in canon (weak, motherly, sacrificial), but I've seen some fics attempting to "fix" her by, basically, handing her a sword and it's all good. I didn't delve too deep into that here but I tried to find a place in the middle for her. I hope I'll see other people writing JYL/WQ in the future too!

I Really Don't Know - giftee asked for Nie Huaisang/Jiang Cheng, which I didn't particularly ship beforehand but had nothing really against, either. Then I thought, fake dating, and thus, this. It's short and I tried to be funny, but I'm not sure if it worked. It felt OOC to me when I was done, but judging by the response, some people liked it at least. At least one person has asked for a continuation, but at this point, I don't have any plans for one. Oh - you might think the title is because of Nie Huaisang's role in the story; in fact, it's really just that I couldn't think of a title, and realized I could get away with it.

Now that these are done, I'm getting back to Butterfly Effect - I keep getting distracted from the main point of the story by plotting out every which way the alternate timeline has gone, specifically where it involves Jin Guangyao. Oops. Relatives are visiting, which has meant a little more free time away from kids, but not really any more writing time.